incandescent : Idioms & Phrases

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incandescent lamp

  • noun electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
    lightbulb; electric light; light bulb; electric-light bulb; bulb.
WordNet

Incandescent lamp ∨ light

  • (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of conducting material, usually carbon usually tungsten! , contained in a vacuum, and heated to incandescence by an electric current, as in the Edison lamp; called also incandescence lamp, and glowlamp.
Webster 1913